Folks, Tomorrow is purported to mark a watershed in our struggle for Freedom, Justice and Development in The Gambia. It is essential for us to remember that our current struggle is not being driven by personal motivations. We instead have very serious disagreements with the A(F)PRC regime based on principles and issues. On April 10th/11th 2000 when more than twenty thousand students from throughout the country took to the streets, we were not asking government to give us scholarships, or improve student welfare in schools; we were simply asking for justice to be done pertaining to acts of rape and murder perpetrated against some of our members. We engaged the Gambian authorities at various levels as a pressure group to ensure that our greviances were addressed. We were the ones who initiated dialogue and streneouslly endeavoured to maintain it. Their entire strategy was tailored around "talking tough and acting tough" with us. Our's was centred around "treating them as public servants" and nothing more. In our engagements with them, we discovered that the separation of powers with regard governance in the Gambia had become history and that there was only one voice that pervaded all the corridors of power, which was and still is the voice of Yaya Jammeh. We made maximum use of our good offices and the contacts available to us to make sure our case was heard at all levels. And we made it obvious to all and sundry that we had only one demand, and that was for justice to be done. To this effect, we wrote a letter of demands concluded with an ultimatum to the Inspector General of Police(IGP), and copied it to the offices of the Secretaries of State for Education and the Interior, as well as the Presidency. We never thought it was in our line of duties to tell them their responsibilities, but we were convinced that it was our right to direct their attention to our greviances and try to rally their support to effecting redress for those greviances. In the build up to April 10th/11th 2000, we were not only insulted and dismissed by the police( except Landing 13 Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh), but we were threatened that if we should manifest our greviances in an organised public manner, more than ten of us would be killed. There should therefore be no doubt in anyone's mind that the massacre of Gambian students four years ago, was deliberately planned from within the leadership of the A(F)PRC. It was in line with their policy of scariny the wits out of the Gambian masses through terror. We are convinced that they have the capacity to do it again and again. They have that amount of evil in them! Politicising April 10th/11th was part of their strategy of absolving themselves of their evil and heinous acts. For four years they have failed to convince a credible number of Gambians and none Gambians alike to this effect. Their propaganda of lies and slander have always and will always boomerang on their ugle and sinful faces. And like all cowards that resort to murder and rape to satisfy their stupid egos, they will perpetually be kept on their toes and looking behind. But to you our fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts and aunties, we have this to say this time: When Yaya Jammeh was giving his infamous orders for our massacre, he is reported to have said " kill those bastards". In effect he called us all bastards. We cannot answere to this pronouncement on us as your legitimate children. If we are bastards, you should let us know so that we would not have to be holding our heads high with some foolish pride, while ignorant of the blemishes you have printed on us! For us this represents the worst insult of our lives time. We are therefore resolved to follow you in whatever it takes to get rid of Yaya Jammeh who has proven himself rude and arrogant beyond description. We vow to follow you in whatever legitimate action you determine it would take to get rid of him. In this noble and honourable task, we render you our unconditional support, but we are determined that you must get rid of the tyrant by the end of the 2006/07 elections. We are convinced that it is arithmetically impossible for Yaya Jammeh to win the forthcoming elections. If he is declared winner by his surrogates in the so-called Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), we look forward to you to lead us in a mass resistance against such illegitimate authority throughout the Gambia from Banjul to Kartong, from Kartong to Koina, from Koina to Palodi, and from Palodi to Barra. But if you fail to liberate the Gambia from this mad dictatorship so that we rightfull inherit it from you, we shall go on our own and do whatever it takes to liberate our beloved motherland. Those who know us will tell you this is not mere hot air. When things went wrong, all the actions that followed on our part were taken not because we trusted Yaya Jammeh and his surrogates, we suspended action because we have absolute respect for you our elders. We will never return Yaya Jammeh's insults because we definitely do not aspire to be like him, and we have tremendous amount of respect for his parents as our parents. That is what you our elders have taught us! But it is time that we tell you that "enough is enough,". You must prove to us that you are really our parents and elders. If you dont get rid of Yaya Jammeh and his surrogates by the end of January 2007, we shall take the mantle for the struggle for liberation from you. This is not the time for us to tell you what we shall do in case you fail to deliver. Time will tell! To you our dear comrades: dearest brothers and sisters! we wish to remind you that those of our friends who were maimed and murdered suffered those fates because we were imbued with tremendous love for ourselves and compatriots. We loved all those who wielded guns against us, and our struggle was to see justice done. Thus we did not harm even a single member of the security forces and the A(F)PRC's forces of evil, though we could have murdered some of them with our bare hands. We had the potentials to run them down, but that was not our purpose. Now we have got to a point where it is obvious that our own brother Yaya Jammeh and his surrogates cannot address our greviances. Our gallant comrades who laid down their dear lives for justice four years ago,must be honoured and vindicated. We must dedicate the rest of our lives to their lost ones. In these momentous and sad days as we remember everyone of them, we urge you all to turn to God in prayer for eternal peace to our fallen comrades, and strenght to those of us alive so that we can effectively conclude this great struggle for justice, even if it takes a lifetime. We wish you all peace and strenght, while THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! Omar Joof, Exiled Ex-prexy, GAMSU. _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? 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